Kernel26 package now doesn't boot [FIXED!]

Question

I grabbed the latest kernel pkg. didn't do lilo -v
and now it doesn't boot at all! [stop at the beggining of ..........]
well shouldnt at least boot the last one? [or automatically do lilo -v]
plz help me now
thanks

Answer 1

after a lot of testing and luck I was able to boot arch again [update lilo that is]
what did I do: [i did all that because lilo refuses either to write the map file, or protests about /dev/hda or /dev/discs/disc0/disc {depending if it was Slack or Arch}]
I booted with SlackWare 9.1 Rescue/Install CD {which has vfat}
and which plays without devfs [so /dev/hdb8 was my root arch]
I mounted  my arch root
mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb8 /tmp
I change the /tmp/etc/lilo.conf to:
boot=/dev/hda
vga=792
default=windows
timeout=300
lba32
prompt
image=/tmp/boot/vmlinuz26 # important change
label=arch
root=/dev/hdb8
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
/boot [the slackware's cd's one] links to /mnt/boot so I did
mkdir /mnt/boot
and then tried to play with lilo a bit
. /tmp/sbin/lilo -C /tmp/etc/lilo.conf -m /tmp/boot/map -M /dev/hda mbr -v
with the above command I have a boot.0300
in /mnt/boot directory
so in the end I just did
cp /mnt/boot/boot.0300 /tmp/boot/
which overwrote the BAD AND UGLY AND OLD [and at last] boot.0300 with the new one [that containted info about the new kernel]
I prayed to Buddha a bit, and then reboot. I there chose arch and OMFG! i was able to boot it
a) I love LILO
b) I love Slackware
c) I love Arch [though I sumbitted some bug reports about the Rescue CD]
mostly I love the fact that I lost some hours do make it work, but now it works as before. On the other hand, I always remember myself trying for days to fix the windows, and then give up [or if i could hack it in a way that would work, then it would be giving me Blue Screens [now dark blue in win2k/xp] of DEATH]
so I must say I love the Penguin
yeahhhhhhhhh
thanks to everyone that helped.
I hope the pkger of kernel would soon add the WARNING [sumbitted bug for that too] and if anyone forgets it or wants to play [like me] then I hope for him that he reads this post, and make it work [i could work with Arch's Live CD too, not sure]
that's all baby.
another success story yeahhhhhhhhh!! :$